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Car BMW M6 - is the best, simply the best, and practically flawless reference product in terms of marketing. This is a car, killing on the spot their target audience. A target audience is BMW M6 - are wealthy and held the citizens who go on vacation in the company of a young girl who these citizens want and are willing to demonstrate how they are fast, strong and skillful on the tennis court and a disco, and sailing under a parachute, diving and snorkeling, fins and swimming trunks, and finally, at the wheel of such a violent car is BMW M6. So said Zarathustra Autopilot Nikolai Fomenko.
My acquaintance with the car BMW M6 took place at the dawn of his own racing career. BMW M6 built in 1986 struck me as uncompromising. There was no freedom of choking and electronic nature. Simply because then it could not be determined. The car was very powerful motor. And the amazing aerodynamics. BMW engineers and designers have jumped higher than his head. They seemed to have descended grace, and they put his heart and soul and all the talent in this coupe. No wonder that six was the favorite car of Ayrton Senna.
DOUBTING THOMAS. The boomer ahead of his time. And when someone or something ahead of its time, nothing good is not usually end there. Of progress in the past, problems in the future grow - almost absolute regularity. That is why the new BMW M6 I reacted warily. Echoing Stanislavsky, I do not believe in the new BMW M6. I do not believe that it is possible to keep the spirit of the old machine, and at the same time to put into it to achieve modernity. But the great and mighty concern succeeded. The impossible became possible. Though...
Although outwardly no harmony classics and contemporaries in the car no. Nor is there any surprises in its exterior. All that we have seen in the BMW's latest publications, here there is weighty, roughly, visibly. Designers did not spend money for new patterns. The car has all the signs of family heirlooms, which I would call the I-Drive family.
There is no surprise and inside the car. The bar, which BMW took with the release of the I-Drive series, did not lower the concern. Honor and praise. Comfort (for the same money from aggressive Porsche You will have only two seats, and not four, like here), the quality of materials, ergonomics, style - all the praise all sorts. Nothing extra. And everything is in place. Even on the dashboard, where there are only the most important speedometer for such a machine for 330 km / h and the tachometer on 9x1000 revolutions. Only then, when your look will strengthen the extreme values \u200b\u200bof these devices, on the periphery of their scales you notice the fuel sensors and temperatures and the vanity window. Electronic adjustments of chairs, mirrors, steering column, as well as navigation functions, I-Drive, DVD systems, etc., selected with love. It seems that the car rolled into the focus group, in which the most arrogant, the most bored and most meticulous clients gathered. Such customers usually bear the death of network business. For they are dissatisfied with everyone from birth.
I am confident that even such types cannot but bribe the BMW brand projector, which transmits a picture with data on speed, revolutions and selected transmission to the windshield. It is extremely convenient for active driving. This is very cool. This is very sporty.
Wake the cat. From the BMW M6 it is easy to make a real sports car. Another question is whether her buyers want this? The fact that M6 can go so quickly that roadside pillars will seem to be a frequency, is undoubtedly. In principle, the six can ride even faster. So, at some point you can see the rear number of your own car!
There is a potency in it. And the potency is crazy. I am expressed by a flowery oriental language, BMW M6 is a sleeping cheetah. Cheetah, waiting for his furious hunter. This car in its chromosomal set is created for the FIA \u200b\u200bGT championships, and the arrival of the BMW M6 in GT, by the way, is expected to many in the very near future.
But in this form, in which it is sold now, it is a semi-finished product. Which I would not personally buy. I am not satisfied with this half-processing machine. It is generally blasphemy - have 500 forces under the hood that cannot be used. Just because there are no such places in the city where these horses can be collected in one herd. In Moscow, as well as in London, Paris, Rome and Brussels, he is useless. In the big city, such a device serves and only one goal will serve - demonstrating the status of its owner.
But if the road in Europe and the adjacent central Russia would become the same unlimited, as the autobahns of Germany ... Oh, that's a different matter! However, in this case, I would have asked BMW Motorsport GmbH employees or smart engineers with an authorized center to make some changes. Firstly, I would reduce the speed of a gear change. Chip which controls shifting and peregazovkoy, set to an ordinary driver. And it is felt. Secondly, I would have made more rigid suspension, removing, for example, stabilizers which prevent to do the back. Thirdly...
But stop. If done with M6 and another third, and fourth and fifth, it will be ready variant GT. But buyers believe, do not want and never will love the GT car. Car GT, you must have the desire, ability and will. The GT must work, sweat and tired. It is completely devoid of comfort, hard, austere car. With that, as expressed by the traffic police, it means increased danger. Prohibitive risk. The danger is not required potential owners sixes.
Today, BMW M6, even if you forget to press on the brake, to stop in time. This car, no matter how powerful was, fully meets the requirements of the Euro 5 and Euro 10. This car saves health. He did not die, even admitting a terrible mistake. He was obedient and humble. He was a civilian. Manage any driver can category VI hlyschevaty yuppies, and bellied retired chairman of the kolkhoz, and ambitious damsel from the first year at the university. But this car is definitely not for everyone (not only financial requirement narrows the circle of applicants for its steering wheel). It is for those who have a shot in the locker, and then ... well, you know.
POWER MAN. Paphos BMW M6 will be even stronger than the Bentley Continental GT, with all due respect to the Bentley. The pathos of the projector, Kevlar roof, 19-inch wheels, a 7-speed box, which came straight from Formula 1. He's roaring V10 engine, listening to that, I remembered a wonderful advertising. If I am not mistaken, it was just advertising BMW, it is difficult to say exactly what model. In advertising boy playing with cars. He in turn takes them rolling around on the floor and copies the sound of the engine. So all the cars had a loud Well-Well-Well-Well, as advertised machine only quietly rustled sh-sh-sh-sh. The V10, to be sure, is not sh-sh-sh-sh. Let on your decibels and it can not be compared with our, FIA GT, motors, but his wolf growl is heard well.
From the abundance of driver buttons in the cabin at the driver can arise Majuity. It is possible that, having mastered them, he will begin to think about the vacancy in the scooter after the departure of Schumacher. In M6 there are also petals of the box under the wheel, and the stiffening button of shock absorbers running in the Komfort, Normal and Sport modes, and the Dynamic Control System Dynamic Control System and ESP, and the on / off key of the dynamic mode M, which seems to be used exclusively on racing routes. There is even a POWER button here - the master M6 satellite must show it first - allowing to supposedly lift the engine's light movement from 400 to 507 hp. I pressed this button. And I did not feel any energy tide. Although, I will say without boasting, quite finely feel the difference in high capacities. Perhaps this tide occurs at speeds above 150 km / h. And in the capital, it was nowhere to disperse faster.
Answer Chamberlamen. A letter came to the editor. And not one. In letters I was reproached that I did not leave bones on a bone from Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII. Now the editors should be expected to expect a new portion of letters in which I, apparently, will reproach that, swearing one car with obvious claims for sportiness, I will praise the other. I answer in advance. In BMW M6 there is a chance to sportiness (and there is all the data for this), but there is no pseudo-alocative cult. In this car, people will not consider themselves equal to Sebastian Lebo. They will feel Macho, Emels on the stove, carrying them to a whitewash. This is a comfortable car, which is just nice to be. It has everything. And in Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution there is only a sticker on a torpedo with the inscription Hello, my little athlete. And that's it. Neither the skin, nor face. But only some complaints. It is possible that for riders in short pants Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII is a limit of dreams. Perhaps in Dopakh Gukovo, where the speed of 200 km / h is perceived as a blow around the head of the back of the head, this car is the king. But the king is naked. And M6 is clearly not a couple.

Text Nikolay Fomenko, photos Andrei Danilov

BMW M6.
 
Gasoline engine, V10
Working volume (cube. Cm) 4999
Power (hp at rpm) 507 at 7750
Moment (nm at rpm) 520 at 6100
Rear-wheel drive
7-speed mechanical gearbox, robotic
Length / Width / Height (mm) 4871/1855/1372
Wheel base (mm) 2781
Mass Curb (kg) 1785
Maximum speed (km / h) 250 (limited to electronics)
Acceleration to 100 km / h (c) 4.6
Fuel consumption (city / highway, l / 100 km) 22.7 / 10.2
Cost of car in Moscow 152 000

 

A source: "Autopilot"